Auto-launching of applications

On Wednesday 18 February 2009 6:37:55 pm Bruce Cowan wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 15:23 -0700, Francis Earl wrote:
> > > Can anyone explain to me why autolaunching programs is a good idea?
> >
> >
> > I would imagine this has a lot to do with the target audience of Ubuntu.
> > Users tend to do silly things by accident, and updates are very
> > important, so closing the update applet would be ill advised - they need
> > security updates and the like and are unlikely in many cases to actually
> > check for them by hand.
>> It is not the applet I am talking about. The update manager window is
> now shown every 2 days (however, it's supposed to appear in the
> background).
>> My argument is that it could be potentially confusing, and people might
> wonder why a window has appeared seemingly at random. Perhaps they may
> think their system has been compromised.
Oh. OK, yes, that does sound weird. And yes, I would wonder if my computer
was possessed if it started doing that.
--
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
apt-get moo
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 197 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
Url : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/attachments/20090219/0683e6b6/attachment.pgp